... leader of the Greater London Council. Such a coup is practically inconceivable, if only because, unlike the leader of the erstwhile Greater London Council, the Prime Minister is appointed by the Queen. No matter: to hint to his readers just how important this section of the book is, Forsyth dresses it up as a letter from Kim Philby (! ) to the Chairman of the CPSU, and has it printed in italics, all ten pages of it; and he later confirmed, to the Times Diary, that he had got the idea from MI5. Presumably it is this section that Mrs Thatcher finds so interesting. During the House of Commons debate on the Official ...

... uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last | Contents | Next Issue 19 First supplement to A Who's Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks "Who's Who" (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in 'Inside Intelligence' (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the 'Who's who' Lobster special was non-existent. This was something of a disappointment to one solicitor who offered his services free if I had happened to get arrested. There were one or two newspaper articles which advertised its existence so official circles obviously ...

... that "I knew Anthony had been interrogated in 1964 by the Security Service and I feared that my name would come up. There were other occasions when I thought it would come out and I would get the chop." Montgomery died in February 1988. Clay Shaw, in other words, had one-stop access to Blunt, Philby, Burgess and their milieu. Though there is no information that he met any of them, we know from Olwen Janson and others that he spent a considerable time in London during the war . (According to her "he made all his major contacts during those years".) Montgomery is the one parapolitically significant name in the ...

... the National Archives in Kew.( [11] ) In all of this with the exception of the new actor chosen to play 'James Bond' whooshing up the Thames there has been very little sign of SIS. One 'sighting' was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.( [12] ) Another was in the Careers Section of London's Evening Standard when a fiction writer explained SIS's recruitment process from ten years ago.( [13] ) The article was truthful and measured, which is to say it confirmed stereotypes ...

... precision is not yet possible - the Americans took over the running of the exile groups. A Soviet publication, (45) includes what purports to the text of a memorandum of agreement between the leadership of NTS and MI6 severing their relationship. (Soviet publications are not famously accurate but this may well be the real thing, delivered by Philby or Blake.) Presumably MI6 funding of the groups ceased and they were left to concentrate on other anti-communist activities. The Americans now had the field to themselves. The BLEF's George Dallas was one of those who stayed close to American interests. He became preoccupied with the danger of a communist take-over in China, ...

... on 8th October establishing the inquiry's terms of reference.... ' This what you are allowed to do........ While the ISC were being invited to look at Mitrokhin and the way he was handled by MI6, messrs Shayler and Tomlinson, the two most important defectors from the British security agencies since Philby, were in exile in one case and in jail in the other. While Shayler was sitting in a French jail the House of Commons had its first debate on the work of the ISC which had produced its first report that summer: neither report nor debate mentioned Shayler. To my knowledge no Labour politicians have met either of them ...

... work secretly for foreign services. According to his admirers, Goleniewski's leads and information led to the capture of a small army of Soviet 'moles' in Britain, Sweden, West Germany, Israel, Denmark and France. His most important catch was the high ranking MI6 official George Blake, whose unmasking led in turn to the exposure of Kim Philby, the most famous 'mole' of all time. Most disturbing of all, however, for the CIA, was Goleniewski's claim that the East Bloc intelligence services were receiving timely information from a source or sources within the CIA itself. According to one CIA counterintelligence officer, Goleniewski was 'the first and primary source' on a 'mole' ...

... debate and networking', Geraldine Sharpe-Newton (ex-CBS, ITN, CNN and WWF), and MS council member Margaret Hill, an early member of the BAP Project (Lobsters passim) and now 'chief adviser, editorial policy' at the BBC. With the publication of the Richard Crossman diaries, the exposure of Kim Philby and the campaign for thalidomide victims to his name, the plaudits for Evans were undoubtedly earned, even if he was a founding member of the Media Society himself. But one 'big target' the 86-year-old was conspicuously reluctant to go for during his editorship of The Sunday Times was the Cold War influence of the United ...

... but this account has since been confirmed by Tom Bower's biography of SIS chief Dick White The Perfect English Spy, pp. 206 and 7. Yakovlev quotes from what purports to be an SIS document, 'A Proposed Statement to the NTS Leadership', which, presuming it to be genuine, may have been given to the Soviets by Kim Philby or George Blake. Bower quotes a brief section from the same document. Labour Research, January 1961, p. 10 See Roberts pp. 101, 122-4 , 131 157, 203. The left-wing Engineering Voice, Christmas 1966, reported having received 'an anonymous and undated document purporting to describe the proceedings of a ...

... many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next potential prime minister, this may have produced an alarming scenario in the US – the possibility of losing 29 The critical dates in this theory would be the Vassall spy trial (October 1962), the disappearance of Philby in Beirut (January 1963) and the Profumo case (May-June 1963). The US Ambassador attended the Parliamentary debate on the latter in person and cabled back to Washington that MacMillan had become 'an electoral liability....his replacement cannot be too long delayed.... ' MacMillan eventually gave way to the ...